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Telegram from Spring, at Fairbanks,
reporting on conditions there - also advising
me that "Heilig wired Long not to pay
my salary as license inspector and am
fired." Mad - well I should say I
was. I called Heilig into the office &
with him Mr. Plato Mountjoy, special
agent, with whom Heilig had talked and to
whom he had "knocked" Abe Spring continually.
I then told them what Springs telegram said
and Heilig admitted that he had sent the telegram
saying that "Mountjoy" thought there was no necessity
for Spring as such license inspector "But" I
said "Mr. Mountjoy is not District Judge - I
am judge in this district and neither you